Selected Bibliography of the Social Security Administration's Research on Disability Issues

The Social Security Disability Insurance program was established in 1956. This selected bibliography highlights the research and statistical work that the Social Security Administration (SSA) has done on the subject of disability. It focuses on articles that have appeared in the Social Security Bulletin since 1956 and earlier Bulletin articles about events leading up to the program's establishment. The bibliography also includes ORES Working Papers and disability-related research done by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College and the Michigan Retirement Research Center at the University of Michigan funded through grants from SSA.

The bibliography was compiled by John R. Kearney, Concepcion McNeace, Karen Morris, L. Scott Muller, Anthony Nathe, Nicole Pascua, and Karyn Tucker. All are with the Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, Office of Policy, Social Security Administration.

Availability of Publications

Articles that appeared in the Social Security Bulletin from 1999 to the present are available at http://www.socialsecurity.gov/policy/docs/ssb. For information about the availability of printed copies or copies of articles issued before 1999, please e-mailop.publications@ssa.gov. Copies of the Bulletin are also available from depository libraries.

Bound, John, Todd R. Stinebrickner, and Timothy Waidman. 2004. Using a Structural Retirement Model to Simulate the Effect of Changes to the OASDI and Medicare Programs. MRRC Working Paper No.2004-091. Ann Arbor: Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan (October).

Burkhauser, Richard V., and Mathis Schröder. 2004. A Cross-National Comparison of the Employment for Men with Disabilities: The United States and Germany in the 1980s and 1990s. MRRC Working Paper No.2004-071. Ann Arbor: Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan (January).

Cohen, Lee, C. Eugene Steuerle, and Adam Carasso. 2002. The Effects of Disability Insurance on Redistribution Within Social Security by Gender, Education, Race, and Income. Research report prepared for the Fourth Annual Joint Conference for the Retirement Research Consortium, "Directions for Social Security Reform." Washington, DC (May).

Davies, Paul S., and Melissa M. Favreault. 2004. Interactions Between Social Security Reform and the Supplemental Security Income Program for the Aged. CRR Working Paper No.2004-02. Chestnut Hill, MA: Center for Retirement Research, Boston College (February).

Davies, Paul S., Kalman Rupp, and Alexander Strand. 2004. "The Potential of the SSI Program to Fight Poverty Among the Poorest Elderly." Journal of Aging and Social Policy16(1): 21–42.

Department of Health and Human Services. Social Security Administration. 1986. "Implementation and Analysis of Public Law 98-460—Section 1619 (The Social Security Disability Benefits Reform Act of 1984)." Social Security Bulletin49(11): 11–45.

General Accounting Office. 2002. Social Security Administration: Agency Must Position Itself Now to Meet Profound Challenges. Testimony before the House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Social Security. GAO-02-289T. Washington, DC: GAO.

———. 2002. Supplemental Security Income: Progress Made in Detecting and Recovering Overpayments, but Management Attention Should Continue. Report to the Commissioner of Social Security. GAO-02-849. Washington, DC: GAO.

———. 1988. "Identifying the Disabled: Concepts and Methods in the Measurement of Disability." Social Security Bulletin51(5): 11–28.

Hannsgen, Greg P., and Steven H. Sandell. 1996. "Deeming Rules and the Increase in the Number of Children with Disabilities Receiving SSI: Evaluating the Effects of a Regulatory Change." Social Security Bulletin59(1): 43–51.

Kearney, John R. 1997. "The Work Incapacity and Reintegration Study: Results of the Initial Survey Conducted in the United States." Social Security Bulletin60(3): 21–32.

Kearney, John R., Herman F. Grundmann, and Salvatore J. Gallicchio. 1995. "The Influence of OASDI and SSI Payments on the Poverty Status of Families with Children." Social Security Bulletin58(3): 3–14.

Lewin Group. 2002. Evaluation Design for the Ticket to Work Program: Preliminary Report on Evaluation Design. Report prepared for the Social Security Administration. Falls Church, VA: Lewin Group (June).

———. 2003. Evaluation Design for the Ticket to Work Program: Preliminary Process Evaluation. Report prepared for the Social Security Administration (March).

Library of Congress, Federal Research Division. 1998. Vocational Factors in the Social Security Disability Decision Process: A Review of the Literature. Report prepared under an interagency agreement for the Social Security Administration, Office of Disability Research. Washington, DC: Library of Congress.

National Academy of Social Insurance, Commission on Childhood Disability. 1995. "Executive Summary of the National Commission on Childhood Disability." Social Security Bulletin58(4): 108–110.

National Academy of Social Insurance, Disability Policy Panel. 1994. "Rethinking Disability Policy—Preliminary Status Report of the National Academy of Social Insurance." Social Security Bulletin57(2): 56–62.

Nelson, William J., Jr. 1994. "Disability Trends in the United States: A National and Regional Perspective." Social Security Bulletin57(3): 27–41.

Packard, Michael D. 1987. "Income of New Disabled-Worker Beneficiaries and Their Families: Findings from the New Beneficiary Survey." Social Security Bulletin50(3): 5–23.

Powers, Elizabeth T., and David Neumark. 2003. The Supplemental Security Income Program and Incentives to Claim Social Security Retirement Early: Empirical Evidence from Matched SIPP and Social Security Administrative Files. MRRC Working Paper No.2003-036. Ann Arbor: Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan (January).

———. 1998. Management of the Supplemental Security Income Program: Today and in the Future. SSA Publication No.05-10103. Baltimore, MD (October).

———. 2000. Social Security Administration's Report on Supplemental Security Income: Income and Resource Exclusions and Disability Insurance Earnings-Related Provisions. Report to the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and to the President of the U.S. Senate. Washington, DC (March).

Vaughan, Denton R., and Bernard Wixon. 1991. Two Papers on a New SIPP-Based Microsimulation Model of SSI and OASDI. ORES Working Paper No. 54. Washington, DC: Social Security Administration, Office of Policy, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics (December).

Vijan, Sandeep, and Kenneth M. Langa. 2003. The Impact of Diabetes on Work-Force Participation: Results from a National Household Sample. MRRC Working Paper No.2003-034. Ann Arbor: Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan (January).

Waidman, Timothy A., John Bound, and Austin Nichols. 2003. Disability Benefits as Social Insurance: Tradeoffs Between Screening Stringency and Benefit Generosity in Optimal Program Design. MRRC Working Paper No.2003-042. Ann Arbor: Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan (April).

Weaver, David A. 1994. Labor Force Participation, Income, and the Use of Short-Term Hospitals by the Elderly. ORES Working Paper No. 64. Washington, DC: Social Security Administration, Office of Policy, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics (November).

Wilschke, Susan. 2004. How Many SSI Recipients Live with Other Recipients? Policy Brief No.2004-03. Washington, DC: Social Security Administration, Office of Policy, Office of Disability and Income Assistance Policy (June).